Modestine donkey5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() A traveller of my sort was a thing hitherto unheard of in that district. This was not merely from the natural hospitality of mountain people, nor even from the surprise with which I was regarded as a man living of his own free will in Monastier, when he might just as well have lived anywhere else in this big world it arose a good deal from my projected excursion southward through the Cévennes. In the midst of this Babylon I found myself a rallying-point every one was anxious to be kind and helpful to the stranger. ![]() Except for business purposes, or to give each other the lie in a tavern brawl, they have laid aside even the civility of speech, 'Tis a mere mountain There are adherents of each of the four French parties-Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans-in this little mountain-town and they all hate, loathe, decry, and calumniate each other. Monastier is notable for the making of lace, for drunkenness, for freedom of language, and for unparalleled political dissension. ![]() ![]() IN a little place called Le Monastier, in a pleasant highland valley fifteen miles from Le Puy, I spent about a month of fine days. THE DONKEY, THE PACK, AND THE PACK-SADDLE ![]()
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